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Mary Grygleski
Full Name
ACE Associate
Top Level Details
Job Role
Regional Director - East
Company
AI Collective
Country
United States
Top Expertise
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Focus Area
AI
About Mary
Mary is a Technical Advocate, Java Champion, and the Regional Director - East at the AI Collective, a non-profit, grassroots community and think tank in the AI space. Mary started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. After 20+ years of being a software engineer and technical architect, she discovered her true passion in developer and customer advocacy. Most recently she was the Director of Emerging Technology, helping to build the new AI practice at a boutique software consultancy. She has serviced companies of various sizes such as IBM, US Cellular, Bank of America, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in topic areas that included Java, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Cloud and Distributed messaging systems. She is also a very active tech community leader outside of her day job. She is the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), the North America East Regional Director and the Chicago Chapter Organizer of the AI Collective.
Expertises
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Java
Architecture
Application Development
Data Integration
Messaging Gateway
Workflow
AI Infrastructure
AI Vector Search
Development Operations (DevOps)
Home Page
https://maryg.one
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Demystifying Generative AI
Aug 13, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - KCDC 2024
AI Vector Search
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